in a patent case in which it has recently granted certiorari, Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc. At issue … without the permission of the U.S. patent holder. Focusing on the state of English law during the long eighteenth century … — that is to say, in the years before and just after Congress enacted the first copyright and patent statutes in 1790 — this …

as the redesign of licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of …

The particular case of software seems to have stretched the patent-copyright divide to the point of breakage. Inspite … of being traditionally excluded from patent, software is an obvious case of a single creation that embodies both …

This paper reviews and compares patent pools, intellectual property clearinghouses and copyright collectives as …

revisits successively the evolution and specificities of patent law and of copyright law. A final Chapter is devoted to the the …

The question of what subject matter is eligible for utility patent protection is controversial. Commentators have … argued that the current body of law is both unpredictable and in a state of disarray. The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has … issued numerous guidelines instructing patent examiners on how to deal with this issue. Congress is considering a legislative …

Scholars who point to political influences and the regulatory function of patent courts in the U.S. have long … patent and which attracted criticism for a wealth of different reasons, are fine case studies of the current debate over the …